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Mated   /mˈeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Mate  v. t.  
1.
To confuse; to confound. (Obs.)
2.
To checkmate.


Mate  v. t.  (past & past part. mated; pres. part. mating)  
1.
To match; to marry. "If she be mated with an equal husband."
2.
To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." "I,... in the way of loyalty and truth,... Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be."
3.
To breed; to bring (animals) together for the purpose of breeding; as, she mated a doberman with a German shepherd.
4.
To join together; to fit together; to connect; to link; as, he mated a saw blade to a broom handle to cut inaccessible branches.


Mate  v. i.  To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.


adjective
mated  adj.  
1.
Brought together for sexual activity; bred; of animals.
2.
Sorted into pairs of identical size, color, or other properties; used of gloves, socks, etc.
Synonyms: paired.
3.
Same as married. Opposite of unmarried; as, they were a devoted couple, mated for life.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mated" Quotes from Famous Books



... one That I should love a bright particular star And seek to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The hind that would be mated by the ...
— Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 - Volume 23, Number 3 • Various
... especially, were considerable; and judged fairly—not as mated with an empty treasury, without other army than the capricious will of his subjects afforded, and amidst his bitterest foes in the jealous chiefs of his own country, against the disciplined force and comparative civilisation of the Saxon—but as compared with all the other princes ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... three geese and a gander from Ike Helm," she said. "They were rather expensive, but two were mated, and they call very well when tied out separated. Do you think it was too expensive?" she added timidly, ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
... and jewelry, I plume myself like any mated dove: They praise my rustling show, and never see My heart is breaking for a little love. While sprouts green lavender With rosemary and myrrh, For in quick spring ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti
... endeavored to fit him to some preconceived standard, generally to the one for which he was least adapted. The world was full of men and women who were merely square pegs in round holes, and vice versa. Most marriages were unhappy because the contracting parties were not properly mated. Religion was mostly superstition, science for the most part sciolism, popular education merely a means of forcing the stupid and repressing the bright, so that all the youth of the rising generation might conform to the same dull, dead level of democratic mediocrity. Life would soon become ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various


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